Decisions
[dɪ'sɪʒən]
Examples
- Your decisions are perfectly judicious, madam, returned Mr. Brocklehurst. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- One good deed or one bad one is no measure of a man's character: the Last Judgment let us hope will be no series of decisions as simple as that. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- There are no more decisions and in a little while you will know. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- We shall offer a few brief extracts from some of these decisions. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- It is the same case with most of the primary decisions of the mathematics. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- The courts abroad have considered his patents in a liberal spirit and given him his due; the decisions in this country have fallen wide of the mark. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- These decisions do not well agree together, and are a proof of the contrariety of those principles, from which they are derived. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Justice, in her decisions, never regards the fitness or unfitness of objects to particular persons, but conducts herself by more extensive views. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Except in certain specified instances the league of this Covenant could make only unanimous decisions. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- On account of this conflict of decisions the matter was referred to the Court of King’s Bench. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The church did indeed take notice of what was afoot, but only because of the disregard of her conclusive decisions. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Upon this question the decisions of the courts of justice were not uniform, but varied with the authority of government, and the humours of the times. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- With the invention of the twine-binder the patent war burst out afresh, and again the courts were called upon for decisions between the rivals. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- It was composed of knights, poets and ladies, who discussed and gave decisions on subtle questions of love and gallantry. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- You had to trust the people you worked with completely or not at all, and you had to make decisions about the trusting. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- But it is a time of difficult decisions. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
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